The Hateful Eight written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of Reservoir Dogs http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/06/reservoir-dogs-written-and-directed-by.html 8 out of 10

 

The Hateful Eight written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of Reservoir Dogs http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/06/reservoir-dogs-written-and-directed-by.html

8 out of 10

 

 

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are among the greatest films ever made, perhaps in the top ten, and we could forget the perhaps, if we talk about this cinephile, it would be there, albeit there are another one hundred that are also with the best ten or twenty, Lawrence of Arabia, Some Like It Hot, Leviafan and many more

 

However, having just declared that two of the master’s creations are nec plus ultra, I must disagree with, well, the rest of the civilized world, and say that Kill Bill http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/note-on-quills-with-geoffrey-rush-kate.html does not fit into the best 1,000, never mind praise it as one of the astounding achievements – in Variety, it was one of the best action movies ever…

The same thing with Inglorious Bastards, the other Kill Bill, although Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the kind of production to which I say ‘acum mai vii acasa’, now that is something that comes much closer to the original masterpieces, the aforementioned Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with an explanation for that

 

It has to do with high expectations – and positive psychology tells us that we have to lower them, the expectations – and the problem of being a…Maximizer, which is detailed in the classic of psychology The Paradox of Choice http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schartz.html by Barry Schwartz, the alternative we want is to be a Satisfizer, someone who wants good enough

The Maximizer is somebody who wants every motion picture to be on the level of Reservoir Dogs, expects perfection, and is hence dissatisfied when this does not materialize and I am now thinking of Regression to the Mean, which is explained by Daniel Kahneman, the only psychologist that has won a Nobel

 

Not for psychology, for there is no such thing – do I recount that Einstein was against having the Nobel given to Freud and indeed, looking on the net for once, something I am too lazy to do normally, I find that ‘Albert Einstein, who won the Physics Prize in 1921, refused to endorse Freud's nomination for the Medicine Prize in 1928’- but for Economy, and he writes about a meeting with fighter pilots

Daniel Kahneman was talking about some errors, and their commander explained how they corrected the mistakes, that was because he shouted and put them in their place, only the psychologist tells about Regression to the mean http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel.html

 

The Hateful Eight seems to be good enough, we have a cast that is the crème de la crème, but then at least one is over the top for my book, Tim Roth, who is nec plus ultra in both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, adopts here a style that is pompous, exaggerated, obsequious, affected for my sensitive, foolish ears

Then there is too little, or too much going on, the buildup is masterly, surely, for those who know better, cultivated, erudite cinephiles that see the value like I don’t, but then we reach a climax and all hell breaks loose…yes, this works splendidly in the two classics, and I agree with the retort ‘so what the hell do you want?’

 

We could go back to Blink the Power of Thinking Without Thinking http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html by the psychologist who is arguably just as influential as Daniel Kahneman, Malcolm Gladwell, and say that from the very first images, one’s opinion is formed

There are important themes, no question about it, racism, the major portrayed by Samuel L Jackson is discriminated – here I realize that he acts with gravitas, the performance is good, maybe excellent, but not scintillating, as dazzling as in Pulp Fiction, where he has quite a few (or better said many)lines that are now part of the history of cinema, with the Ezekiel ‘strike down upon you with furious vengeance’ and the other talk, about the burgers in Europe and the metric system, and the epiphany of the end

 

‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’…’a thing of beauty is a joy forever, there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so…’ and we could continue down this path, with what luminaries have said about this, but then we would fall in the mistake satirized by our Magister Ludi, Andrei Plesu, in his speeches

Our great philosopher and performer http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/05/despre-ingeri-by-andrei-plesu-10-out-of.html is ridiculing the people who, just like me, keeping quoting – you invite him to have a tuica aka a plum brandy and he says ; let me tell you about this, Calistrat Hogas has a line on tuica’…

 

Anyway, the pint is that I expected The Hateful Eight to take me aback, and it did not, although I must say that I looked at a portion of it these days, as it was included in the HBO program and on another channel, and it did not seem that bad…nonetheless, it did not overturn my initial verdict either

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html